December 30, 2022 • 40 mins
It’s a Football Friday on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, and Jonas Knox recaps a Thursday Night Football that had no real upside for the Cowboys and hopefully kept the Titans out of the Playoffs. Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy defends his QB Russell Wilson, who might just be the worst starter in the league this year. Plus, momentum for NFL referees getting full-time status, Lionel Messi's hotel room in Qatar becoming a tourist attraction and a bad beat on In Case You Missed It.
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Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up here on a Football Friday, We're going to
get into all of the details of last night's performance
between the Cowboys and the Tennessee Titans. We're gonna talk
about why didn't mean anything for the Dallas Cowboys and
what it should mean to you moving forward for the
Tennessee Titans and the race for the a f C South.
We're also gonna look around at some other news and
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notes from around the National Football League. We've got another
edition of In case you missed it, We've got a
special edition of what You're Rather, and we've got the scraps.
It's all yours. Coming up next here, Two Pros and
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Bowl and it's pouring rain, But again, we'll figure that
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You know. Brady Quinn's I mean, he's he's being pulled
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Like I said, We're gonna bust balls, We're gonna do
the usuals. Oh and by the way, it's still a
football Friday. Yeah, yeah, what does that mean? Brno, uh,
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it is a football Friday here on Fox Sports Radio.
Lilloly Justin Cooper just passed by. I said one of
the most vulgar things I've ever heard somebody in radio,
same moments before the show, which, by the way, he
was honest something though it is much better than the soda.
But here's the point. Can we just have a real
conversation about last night's game in the NFL. Let's have
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a real conversation here right on a couple of fronts. Okay,
but let's let's be honest. I'm gonna need you to
put your fandom down. I'm gonna need you to put
your dislike down. I'm gonna need you to put your
fatigue for the coverage of a certain team down. And
let's just be totally complete, honest together, all right, you
and I together let's have this honest conversation. What was
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the upside for the Dallas Cowboys in that game last night?
I mean, seriously, what was the upside? Like, if you're
gonna hear anybody break down and be critical of the
Dallas Cowboys or throw praise at the Dallas Cowboys, I
would love to know why. What was the upside? Like,
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if you want to start from the critical standpoint, Well, yeah,
Dak Prescott through two interceptions. Okay, we're gonna be fair
about it. I mean one of them was it was
a deflection, you know. I mean, that's the second time
in recent weeks since has happened. It happened against the
Jaguars and overtime. I'm not saying Dac wasn't guilty of
some poor throws in that game, but really, in totality,
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what was the upside? I mean, Micah Parsons was playing
the game with a club on the end of his wrist,
like he he looked like Jamie Lanister post surgery on
Game of Thrones, Like, what what was really the If
you just want to be totally truthful about it and
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look at expectations, Dallas covered the spread and you can say, well,
what does it. What does the gambling line mean? Well,
the gambling line is set, and that's sort of a
barometer to whether or not you performed either below expectations
or above expectations. And the Dallas Cowboys, by rule, exceeded expectations.
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They covered a spread. And so if you in December
can go on the road on a short week and
beat a team by fourteen in not ideal conditions at times,
to me, you performed above expectations. But the fact of
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the matter is, if you just want to get down
to the to the total truth of the Dallas Cowboys,
none of this matters. There's no upside for that game
last night. Yeah, but they're still in contention to win
the division. They're not winning the division. Let's just like
they're not. It's not happening. Philly is gonna win the
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division and Dallas is going to be a wild card team.
But if you look at the Dallas Cowboys, like, let's
let's say, just let's play this game. Dak Prescott and
the Dallas Cowboys go out last night and they mutilate
the Tennessee Titans on Amazon Prime. Dak Prescott throws for
five hundred and sixty yards he's got five touchdowns, the
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defense pitches a shutout, completely mutilate the Tennessee Titans and
beat him sixty to nothing. Does any of that matter
if they go out in the divisional round and lose
in the playoffs, none of it matters. Like they're like,
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there was no upside to last night's game. So I
don't come away from that game last night and go,
oh my god, Josh Dobbs making his first start, and
I mean, I mean, that's the performance you rolled out, dude.
They won the game. They're not based and they're not
being judged on regular season wins anymore or losses. If
they are, it's because certain shows on certain places in
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certain networks like to break down the Dallas Cowboys because
they know it's a ratings draw. And you've got a
lot of people who love the Cowboys and a lot
of people who hate him. But there was zero to
gain for the Dallas Cowboys in that game last night.
They won the game. They covered the spread, Dak Press
got through a couple of picks. It looked a little
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dicey in the first half at times, but they won
the game. You move on. There was so like you
can't there's nothing you can take away from that game
last night and go, my god, that could be a
problem moving forward. None of it's gonna matter. If they
play the NFC South champion on the road in the
first in the first round of the playoffs and they
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lose that game, I don't think they will. I think
they're gonna win, which is why I said the divisional round,
because I think that's where this team's gonna end up.
And then we just then from there, it's now you
see what you got. But based on all the playoff
failures last year against San Francisco, the Dallas Cowboys are
being judged differently and should be rightly so, being judged
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differently than a lot of teams in the NFL. Like
if you were to just if I were to do
blind team test, you just did a blind team test,
and I described a team to you. And in my description,
I describe a team to you that's twelve and four
with an opportunity to win a road playoff game and
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most likely going to win a road playoff game, and
a chance to play a a team that they've already
beaten before who's got an ailing quarterback. You would say,
I like that team's chances. That seems like a team
that could actually make a run win that second round
playoff game against a team with an ailing starting quarterback,
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and that team is going to be in an NFC
title game. That's the Cowboys. Yeah, we come away from
last night's game, and I guarantee you there's gonna be
people that nitpicked the performance of Dak Prescott and the
Dallas Cowboys. It was a crummy condition game against a
team that was starting a bunch of backups in late
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December on a short week on the road. You covered
you one, You got out of there, and now you
move on to next week. But the reality is this week,
next week, there really isn't a whole lot of upside
for the Dallas Cowboys if they go out and crap
themselves in the first or second round of the postseason.
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Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio two pros and a cup
of Joe right here on FS are all right, let's
get into this. I'm not a big fan of prequels,
just by rule, not a big fan because I already
know how it ends, So why why do I want
to see how it starts? Like if you went through
every awful situation in your life, and I said, hey, look,
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I know this was a really rough day for you. You
You had a death in the family, you got dumped,
dog died, whatever the case may be, got into an accident,
whatever it is. Do you want to hear how the
rest of the day went before then? No, I'm good. No,
not really, Are you sure? I mean, I know you've
got in a car accident, but hey, guess what, at
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least that cup of coffee you had to start out
the day was on point. Yeah, I'm not really interested.
The car accident kind of ruined it for me. Not
a big fan of prequels. It's like a lot of
people tell me the Better Call Saul eight, prequel of
Breaking Bad, and it's like, Okay, I respect it. That's awesome.
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There's some people who would argue, maybe it's even better
than Breaking Bad. I don't know. I've never seen Better
Call Saul, never had any interest to, because I gotta
be honest with you. After six or seven seasons and
like a hundred episodes of some guy with cancer wearing
but huggers making crystal meth out of an RV with
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red mountains in the background. For some reason, that just
got me depressed. I don't know why it's weird. For
some reason, that was a downer for me. Point being,
I'm not interested in the prequel if I know how
it's gonna end. Can the Jacksonville Jaguars just win the
a f C South please, for the love of Christ,
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can you just win the a f C South, because
everybody knows how the story is gonna end if Tennessee
gets into the playoffs, Okay, at least, can we get
something different? Please? Can we get something different? And I'm
not trying to be disrespectful. We have a great affiliate
on in Nashville, the Zone in Nashville, great fan base,
love Mike Rable. There's a lot to like about the
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Tennessee Titans, But damn, what the hell was that? Like
the Josh Dobbs story, it's great first ever NFL start, Hey,
and I would argue Josh Dobbs played pretty well considering
the circumstances. But you can rest whoever you want for
this week and last night's game just to get to
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week eighteen, because last night didn't really matter. All I'm
saying is this for the rest of the country, for
the rest of America who have seen how this story ends,
which is usually the quarterback you have, who more often
than not is wearing number seventeen, throws like some early picks,
or loses a home game to Cincinnati last year, or
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you've got to turn to Derrick Henry in the passing
attack near the end zone because you're starting quarterbacks thrown
for like fourteen yards a game, but still you're making
a run to the a f C title game. Look,
there's a lot to like about the Tennessee Titans, but
I've seen it before and so have you. So all
I'm asking no offense, but with the injuries and the
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backstory and what we've seen previously, can we just get
the Jacksonville Jaguars in the playoffs and just instill some
new blood. They're not gonna win a game. They look
they're set to play the Chargers. Whoever is playing the
Chargers in the first round is gonna get annihilated. They're not,
Like Jacksonville is not winning that game. But at least
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give us something different, because we've already seen this Tennessee
story before. Two pros and a cup of Joe, Fox
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from last night already some controversy. I mean there was
controversy before the game and even started, so we're gonna
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of the Scraps some things in the world of sports
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now here on fs are all right, So somebody decided,
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you know what, I'm tired of everybody being so mean,
tired of it. Teammates have now all of a sudden
jumped to the defense of Russell Wilson. Now, look, I'm
guilty of it. You're guilty of it. Uh. A little
bit cornball stuff from Russell Wilson all year. I mean,
if you want to be honest about it, a little
bit of cornball stuff from Russell Wilson. For a long time,
nobody else wanted to say anything. You had a lot
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of guys in the Seahawks locker room. We were trying
to call this stuff out years ago. Nobody wanted to listen,
you know. I mean, look, it's it's just a little
cringe e. It's a little awkward. The uh, you know,
practicing the high fives to come out to practice, you know,
like uh, the subway commercial, which is just odd, like
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some of the outtakes from that, the stuff he does
on like snap face or TikTok whatever whichever one it is.
I mean, look, a lot of that stuff is just weird.
Oh and on top of it, he's been awful this year.
Worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Like, just let that
sink in, worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Like I
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would actually argue that Mike White's best performance was better
than Russell Wilson's best performance this year. So we're looking
at the worst starting quarterback in the NFL with all
that money and everything that comes along with it. And
so now you've got a teammates who have finally had
enough and they have jumped out to defend Russell Wilson.
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Case in point, Jerry Judy wide receiver Jerry Judy, who,
by the way, apparently you can make physical contact with
an official and not get suspended for it, which is weird.
It weird how that works. But you know, that story
got kind of slid under the rug. But Jerry Judy
defended Russell Wilson, and he was defending him because there
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was a an article that came out via Barstool Sports
that pointed out that Russell Wilson apparently has his own
office and private parking spot at the Bronchos facility. All right, well,
for starters, where the hell's everybody been? Brady Quinn reported
on this months ago. I can't believe this is just
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now making the rounds. Brady Quinn on this show months
of months ago, because he's got connections in Denver said, yeah,
from people I've talked to, Russ got his own office,
he's got all these own perks and so on and
so forth. This was months ago, documented and discussed on
this show, and a couple of months later now it's
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making the rounds as the Bronchos season is in the
toilet and they're out of head coach, and now there's
questions about what the hell the direction of the organization
is going to be after this season. So where the
hell were you? Another example as to why you got
to listen to this show because we were on this
story and on this topic months ago before everybody else
started to take it and run with it on social media.
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But never mind all that. Jerry Judius defended these accusations
and statements that Russell Wilson apparently has his own office
and private parking spot at the Broncos facility, and he says,
amongst other things, I ain't gonna keep looking at these
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false statements about my boy Russman. As a teammate who
sees the elite work ethic this man has is uncomparable.
He got an office because he's committed to his life
to the game. I never had a teammate who motivate
me more than Russell Wilson. All right, So what he
has said, upon seeing and reading the claims that Russell
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Wilson has his own office and private parking spot, is
that Russell Wilson's got an office because he's committed his
life to the game. Right. So, like it's true, but
like not all of it's true. That would be like
somebody walking up to you and going a you're an
a hole, you're a deadbeat, and you're an alcoholic and
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your responses. First of all, don't you ever call me
an a hole? Okay, but deadbeat and alcoholic or fine?
Al right, so the other two are fined, so it's
not totally accurate. So we have found flaws of the statement.
All right, we found a significant flaws in the statement.
But let's go ahead and go with that one. Look
big picture, this season might actually turn out to be
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a good thing for Russell Wilson, Like if you look
at it big picture, because I mean, no matter what,
he's been humbled, no matter what, I don't care how
much money you make. When the conversation for you goes
from guaranteed Hall of Famer to this season so bad
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that maybe we have to revisit that discussion about your career.
That is a humbling thing. Like I can't think of
a lot of guys who were no doubt about it
going to be Hall of Famers who in one season
you look back and you go, I don't know. The
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only other guy I can think of in recent memory
is Antonio Brown, obviously for much different reasons, for much
different reasons, but Antonio Brown went from that guy is
gonna be a Hall of Famer, had like a five
or six year stretch where he was the best wide
receiver in the NFL and it wasn't even close. And
you can go back and look at that stretch. It's unbelievable,
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best wide receiver in the NFL and not even an argument.
And in the matter of one year, he quit on
the Steelers, burned his feet in a cryo chamber, sent
out a tweet with the hashtag no more white women
in did a rap video with white women, which was
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odd a little. You know, it feels like we kind of,
you know, forgot about the hashtag on the previous tweet,
but ended up in Miami, got accused of all sorts
of misconduct off the field, or ended up in New England,
played one game in Miami, got accused of all sorts
of stuff off the field, got cut by the Patriots,
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then got picked up by Tampa Bay, then ruined his
relationship with Tom Brady, then sent out pictures of him
and Tom Brady's x Y. I mean, you talk about
going from guaranteed Hall of Famer to that'll go ahead
and do it. And I'm not sure who's the only
that's the only other guy I can think of other
than Russell Wilson who in the matter of one season,
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completely changed all of that. So if you're just looking
at where Russ's career was headed, maybe the this is
what he needed, Like maybe you got to be humbled sometimes,
and maybe this is gonna be the best thing for him.
And so to see teammates come out and defend him,
I think it's that's cool, that's admirable because all you've
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heard is the negative stuff. Like all you've heard is
Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch and a lot of other
guys point to look this stuff with Pete Carroll's taking
shots at Russell Wilson, Like, all you've heard is the
bad stuff. And so when you see a couple of
his teammates come out and defend him, maybe Russell Wilson's
gonna look after this season and go all right, I
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gotta get back on track and focuses to what the
what the important stuff is. Maybe this is going to
turn out to be a good thing. Right. It's like, look,
how do you learn not to do things when you're
a kid? Well, you know, you you screw up a
little bit. I can remember throwing a temper tantrum. I
got pissed because my mom wouldn't let me have a
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sip of her Diet coke. Is a true story, that's embarrassing.
True story. I decided I was going to be a
smartass at like five years old, and through a temper
tantrum and spun my head around and knocked myself on
the corner of the wall. And to this day, I
still have a bone that protrudes out of the side
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of my head. I've got a horn on the side
of my head because I threw a temper tantrum. Guess
what I've never done after that, throwing a temper tantrum
because somebody didn't give me a sip of their Dike
coke right, never one time. In fact, I didn't even
think it was Dike Coke. I think it was like
Diet Shasta because that was the cheaper store brand at
the supermarket near our house. But point being, you learn
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your lesson, you move on. So maybe Russell Wilson's gonna
learn his lesson, maybe he's gonna be humbled by all this.
I'm fascinated to see what next year looks like for
the Denver Broncos and for us. Two pros and a
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you missed it, coming up here shortly. But for all
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you need your full attention. Yeah. Let's start off with
Thursday Night football with the Cowboys beating the Titans in
Tennessee twenty seven and third team Dak Prescott couple of
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touchdown passed in the second half to tight end Dalton
Schultz and helping the Cowboys get the win and improve
the twelve and four. They still have hopes of winning
the NFC East, but they gotta win out and hope
the Eagles lose as well. For Tennessee, they didn't have
start running back Derrick Henry, and they started Josh Dobbs,
who basically they signed off the street about a week ago,
and he went twenty of thirty nine passing two or
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thirty two yards with a touchdown and interception. Tennessee falls
to seven and nine, but it looks like Dobbs will
start again next week in a winner take all game
against the Jaguars. Winner wins the ABC South and goes
to the playoffs. NFL News Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, still
recovering from his knee issue, did not practice on Thursday,
unlikely to play this weekend. Philadelphiagles quarterback Jayala Hurts was
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at practice throwing. Didn't participate in the practice, but was
throwing at practice, first time since he injured his shoulder
against Dallas College Football. We had the Alamo Bowl where
Washington beat Texas twenty seven, twenty Huskies and the year
eleven and two. In the cheese At Bowl, Florida State
Gota Ryan Fitzgerald thirty two yard field goal with fifty
five seconds to play, the edge Oklahoma thirty thirty two,
and the pin stripe bowler was Minnesota over Syracuse twenty
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eight to twenty. Some NBA games of note, Celtics approved
to a league best twenty six and ten with a
one six, one ten victory over the Clippers. The Mavericks
get another triple double from Luca don Chich thirty five
points twelve rebounds, thirteen assisteen win over the Rockets. Grizzlies
down the Raptors one nineteen, one oh six Pacers beat
the Cavaliers one one twenty six. Tom College Basketball only
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one ranked team in action, but it was the number
one team in the country per due. They handled Florida
A and M eighty one forty nine. Boiler Makers are
thirteen and NHL games and note we had the Lightning
over the Rangers two wanted to shoot out Kings get
by the Avalanche five, four to shootout Wild over the
excuse me, star is over the wild four to one
in the Coyotes, surprised the Maple Leaves six or three
and finally from soccer Brazilian legend Pelee passing away at
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the age of eighty two after a battle with cancer
and now no pros, Just the Joe. It's Jonas Knocks
in the tirac dot Com Box Sports radio studio. But Eddy,
if you ever been to Nashville, I have not. I'd
like to go, though, Yeah, Like I was just thinking
about that Be and and our friends listening on the
zone in Nashville, Like I was taking some shots at
the Titans earlier it's fine, Everything's gonna be okay. But
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I don't know if it's the magic of TV, but
whenever they showed downtown Nashville, that just looks like a
place that could be a problem. Like that looks there,
looks like there's a lot going on there. I've had
buddies who have gone to Nashville to see either a
Predators game or they've gone to see a Titans game,
and I've never heard anybody say anything bad about Nashville,
Like it looks awesome. So there's the potential that if
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you and the misses who's a die hard Chargers fan,
if they get to the postseason, depending on how Baltimore
finishes up with Lamar Jackson still out, there's a chance
if Tennessee does win next week, you guys could be
on your way to Nashville. Like that that's a new spot, right,
I mean, that's we've been talking about maybe going to
a playoff game, and if it's in Nashville, I'm gonna
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push really hard for that to happen. So I would
I I would like to see that happening, but I
had not considered and by the way, are the Predators
might be in town? That that weekend or that I
would assume like looking at actually, no, thank you. Yeah,
they've got like a seventy five game, Roacher, that's a bummer.
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I'm not sure the exact date of when that game
is going to take place, but there's a possibility. I
mean there's I mean they are home against Buffalo the
Predators on January, so so there is that. I don't
know if that would be, uh the weekend that the
first round of the playoffs would happen. Actually I think
it is. I think that's the weekend so they do
get back into town, so you could see a Predators
game and you could see the Tennessee Titans get blown
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out by the Chargers at home. Like that's awesome, like
that that feels that's a full full trip there, full
throttle any well, as you know, uh, we always try
and work in a hockey game if we can. Yeah,
so yeah, that would be yeah, like I just anybody
that I've ever taught. But it also could be the
magic of TV because they'll show like they were showing
downtown last night. I'm like, that place looks awesome. It
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just it looks like a fun, fun town. Yeah, to
all I've heard is good things about Nashville, but they
also show like Santa Monica Pier. When they're showing games
in l A. Nationally, there's probably a lot of people
across the country like, man, that looks like a fun
place to be. Yeah, why don't you walk a few
steps up to Venice and tell me what it looks like.
Just go up to Venice and tell me how the
how the seat is. It's good luck finding. Yeah, that's yeah,
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is totally different though. Yeah, but they'll show it and
they'll make it seem like, well, that's l A, Like
that's that's what l A looks like. I remember my mom,
my mom telling me. I told her that, like some
friends and I were going to go to Hollywood and
we're gonna look at like, you know, the Walk of Fame,
like we think we were teenagers or just coming to
high school. Okay, So I had no idea I had.
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So I told her I was gonna go and she's like, hey,
you've never been right. I was like, nah, she goes,
all right, we'll see. I was like, what's the problem.
And I got back and I was like, hey, mom,
that place sucks. She's like, I told you, I just not.
You hear all these stories about these places around the country.
Did you get there? You're like, that's not not not
the nicest place in the world. But I like, I
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also used this as a barometer. So J Cutler played,
he grew up in Indiana, played his college football at Vanderbilt,
gets drafted to the Denver Broncos. Denver is an awesome town,
great place. Um that that is that I've been to Denver,
That place is a lot of fun. Then ends up
(28:53):
in Chicago, another great town, great city, tons of things
to do, and then had a short stint in my Ammy,
also great place, lots to do and shows. After his
career was over, to live in Nashville or in and
around the Nashville area. So I think that's an indicator
that that's a that that's a fun place to be.
So Eddie Garcia is going to tear it up. Man,
(29:13):
it's either there or you could end up in in
Cincinnati or Jacksonville. I don't know about tearing it up,
but well, so what would it like in order of
your preferences if you were going to go to this
playoff game for the Chargers, how would you would you
go between Nashville Jacksonville and Cincinnati, which are the leading
contenders right now for the Chargers. What would be your
(29:36):
your preference, Well, it would be Nashville for sure. Okay,
I think the appeal of Cincinnati certainly would not be
the weather, but it would be the potential of a
shootout between two awesome young quarterbacks. And we do have
you know, friends in the Cincinnati area, including that guy
for ball. Yeah, Eddie Furman, that's right, so best friends.
(29:58):
But no, I would uh, I would definitely choose Nashville. Yeah,
so so we'll see, we'll see how that works out.
But for what, For whatever they've done to present Nashville
on national television like they did last night at Amazon Prime,
then it works because that makes a lot of people
want to go. I look at it, and I go
if I was in my early twenties, like if I
if I went to college in Nashville, It's like, you know,
I'm gonna hang around here and I'm just gonna go
(30:19):
ahead and continue on and just you know, figure something
out to do after college. Not a shot in how
my career would get off the ground. I would I
would get in so much trouble out there that just
looks like a fun place to be. It is Two
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By the way, I forgot like the brno's got Jackass.
I don't even know which jackassid is? Which movie it is,
the second one for the second one. Some of this
stuff is so gross fair, it is so gross. Um
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and uh and oh man, they're about to get to
the uh the scene where the guy dresses up like
he's uh part of a terrorist mob and he's got
a beard with yeah, yeah, that's on. Yeah, that's where
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But right now, it's time for something we do on
the show every single day, and it's called this. Sometimes
you can't get to everything in the world of sports
or entertainment. Good thing, the guys are here to bring
you in case you instead. After that, we turned it
over to our executive producer lead do Do Lap. That's
(33:06):
that's right, Jonas. And in case you missed it, the
NFL is reportedly considering a massive change for referees, that
being making them full time employees, with emphasis being on
their ability to study the rule book, work out during
the off season, as well as officiating offseason workouts and
training camp training camp practices. How long have officials been
(33:27):
around for like a hundred years? Seventy five years, let's
just well, we'll call it seventy five years, which is
a fun easy number like that. So after seventy five years,
they're now going to have referees train in the off
season and study the rule book. That's cool. Uh, that's cool. Boy?
(33:55):
Do I feel like a horse's ass betting on NFL
games over the past twenty years? Fan? U? Now? I mean, now,
now we've got it fixed. We're gonna make them full time. Look,
I mean this is the people have been talking about
this for a little while. It is odd that that
NFL officials aren't full time. It also just goes to
show you that Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino and these
(34:16):
guys who recognized early on, you know what, I could
make a lot more money doing TV. It's a lot
better gig. And I don't have to sit here and
get my ass booed and shoot out by fans and
people on social media because I'm calling games by the rules,
but the rules don't make sense. And also, by the way,
(34:39):
it's just my side gig. I've also got to work
my full time job during the week. It just yeah,
this is probably something that needs to get done. But
just the idea that the NFL is like, all right,
finally we're gonna get around to making this happen, Like, dude,
why did Why did it happen sooner? Because now you've
got some gambling money that's being invested into the league,
So now you've got an extra cash lyne around, like,
(34:59):
you know what, We're gonna go ahead and get that
extra room down in the house. Finally, Well, it doesn't
cost that much. Why didn't you do it sooner while
we had other things going on? Now you didn't you
bought a k Gurader Like, what do you mean you
should like that that that room was falling apart. You
gotta get it done. You got asbestos up on the ceiling.
You know, there's like there's smells like mildew. Yeah, but
(35:21):
we got this brand new k Gurader, Like, dude, get
it done. I don't know why he took the NFL
this song? What else we got lee in case you
missed it? After winning the World Cup? That being Argentina
and Lionel Missi guitar is turning Lionel Messi's room at
the FIFA World Cup into a tourist attraction. They're gonna
leave his his room untouched and let tourists pay to
(35:41):
come check it out. What Like I gotta pay to
smell Messy's jock that he left behind because he wanted
to get out of that country. Like I gotta I
gotta pay to smell that and walk through that. Do
you think they've cleaned it yet? I mean, like did
they leave it? How clean? How long was he there for?
(36:03):
Like a month and a half month? Month and a half.
There's times I've left hotels and only been there thirty
six hours and I'll leave a tip because I feel
bad about what I've left behind. I can't imagine what
a soccer player who sweat his ass off running around
in the middle guitar left behind at his hotel room
(36:27):
that now they're going to try and make money on
because they're going to turn it into a museum. This
is the least interesting thing I I have no interest
in wanting to see Lionel Messi's room that he left
by the way, if you're messy, and I'm not trying
to accuse him of any shenanigans, but I might feel
a little bit uncomfortable about, you know, maybe some of
(36:48):
the stuff that might have been left behind in that room.
Then now people are gonna pay money to go see.
By the way, Jonas, don't you clean up your own
hotel room? Yeah, I mean I'll pick it up a
little bit, like if if there's at your own bed. No,
absolutely not absolutely not that I'm not gonna do, not,
not even a chance. But it's also I don't know
(37:09):
how to make a bed, like I know how to
do the basics. Like my wife gets on me all
the time. She's like, who taught you how to make
a bed? I was like nobody. I didn't have a bed.
I slept on a futon growing up, and it was
broken so you couldn't pull it out all the way.
I had to sleep on the futon that was that
was like literally pushed in like a couch. That's how
I slept, which is why it actually benefited me because
(37:31):
I sleep on my back. And she goes, I don't
know how you do that, because I just sleep on
my almost like I'm a mummy. I crossed my arms
and I sleep on my back and I don't move
like I'm a mummy. And she says, how, like, how
did you learn to sleep like that? I said, I
slept on a futon that was pushed in like a
couch for majority of my life. If I rolled one
side or the other, I was going to roll off
(37:52):
and fall on the floor. So I trained myself in
my sleep to sleep to go like that. So yeah, no,
I'm not making it a beg because I don't really
know how to because I never had to. So and
what do you current, Lee, What like do you make
your bed when you go to hotels? So of course not.
But I saw your hotel room and it was like spotless. Okay, well,
first of all, we weren't in Vegas that long. It's
(38:13):
not like we we were destroying the place. But yeah,
what are you guys doing? Well? Then Lee walking and
that did sound weird. We should probably clear clear that
up so nobody thinks we're on the side of American me. Alright,
tell me. Here's the thing. So Lee walked into my
room in Vegas and we were out there for the draft,
and he's like, geez man, like it hasn't been touched,
(38:35):
and like, okay, it was a king bed. I only
sleep on one side, and like I told you, I
sleep like a mummy. So there just wasn't a lot
moving around and we didn't need to be there that long,
so there wasn't a lot to unpack or shuffle around.
So yeah, whatever, it's not gonna be judged by Lee. Alright,
what else we got leave? That's all good. Hey, case
you missed it. Minnesota Betters caught one of the worst
(38:56):
beats of the bull season so far last night in
the Pinstripe Bowl. They went in of the game ten
and a half point favorites. Much of that to do
with them starting most of their star players, while the
Orange saw you know, Shawn Tucker opting out as well.
As their offensive and defensive coordinators not making it so
it looked pretty good. With three minutes and fifteen seconds left,
the Minnesota Gophers were up. They actually got a fumble
(39:20):
return at six or four yards to seemingly ice the game,
but they had twelve men on the field, so the
Queues actually ended up scoring with scoring a touchdown late
in that game, covering the score. Well. I I believe
that the overhead though I think the odd hit the
over did hit four. It's why nobody had a better
breakdown like Brady's the college Football Analysts, LaVar's the College
(39:44):
Football Hall of Famer. Nobody had a better breakdown of
why to take the over in that Pinstripe Bowl game
better than me, who pointed out that it's Yankee Stadium
and with that short porch, there's always a lot of
offense there. So I thought that Lee was applicable to
a football game that was being played there, and look,
as it turns out, I was one correct. And also
(40:06):
I would just say this, nobody ever feels bad for
the guy who gets gored when he's running with the bulls.
In fact, I would argue people are rooting for the
bulls to stick a horn and some guy and rip
out part of his body, Like I would argue that
that is sort of the if we're looking at rooting
interests and for running of the bulls, I would say
that more people are pulling for the bulls in that
(40:27):
standpoint than they would be the guy who's running with
the bulls, because it's like, dude, if you're running with bulls,
what do you expect if you're betting on Bowl games?
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Bowl and it's pouring rain, But again, we'll figure that
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You know. Brady Quinn's I mean, he's he's being pulled
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Like I said, We're gonna bust balls, We're gonna do
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(02:20):
it is a football Friday here on Fox Sports Radio.
Lilloly Justin Cooper just passed by. I said one of
the most vulgar things I've ever heard somebody in radio,
same moments before the show, which, by the way, he
was honest something though it is much better than the soda.
But here's the point. Can we just have a real
conversation about last night's game in the NFL. Let's have
(02:43):
a real conversation here right on a couple of fronts. Okay,
but let's let's be honest. I'm gonna need you to
put your fandom down. I'm gonna need you to put
your dislike down. I'm gonna need you to put your
fatigue for the coverage of a certain team down. And
let's just be totally complete, honest together, all right, you
and I together let's have this honest conversation. What was
(03:07):
the upside for the Dallas Cowboys in that game last night?
I mean, seriously, what was the upside? Like, if you're
gonna hear anybody break down and be critical of the
Dallas Cowboys or throw praise at the Dallas Cowboys, I
would love to know why. What was the upside? Like,
(03:28):
if you want to start from the critical standpoint, Well, yeah,
Dak Prescott through two interceptions. Okay, we're gonna be fair
about it. I mean one of them was it was
a deflection, you know. I mean, that's the second time
in recent weeks since has happened. It happened against the
Jaguars and overtime. I'm not saying Dac wasn't guilty of
some poor throws in that game, but really, in totality,
(03:50):
what was the upside? I mean, Micah Parsons was playing
the game with a club on the end of his wrist,
like he he looked like Jamie Lanister post surgery on
Game of Thrones, Like, what what was really the If
you just want to be totally truthful about it and
(04:10):
look at expectations, Dallas covered the spread and you can say, well,
what does it. What does the gambling line mean? Well,
the gambling line is set, and that's sort of a
barometer to whether or not you performed either below expectations
or above expectations. And the Dallas Cowboys, by rule, exceeded expectations.
(04:35):
They covered a spread. And so if you in December
can go on the road on a short week and
beat a team by fourteen in not ideal conditions at times,
to me, you performed above expectations. But the fact of
(04:58):
the matter is, if you just want to get down
to the to the total truth of the Dallas Cowboys,
none of this matters. There's no upside for that game
last night. Yeah, but they're still in contention to win
the division. They're not winning the division. Let's just like
they're not. It's not happening. Philly is gonna win the
(05:19):
division and Dallas is going to be a wild card team.
But if you look at the Dallas Cowboys, like, let's
let's say, just let's play this game. Dak Prescott and
the Dallas Cowboys go out last night and they mutilate
the Tennessee Titans on Amazon Prime. Dak Prescott throws for
five hundred and sixty yards he's got five touchdowns, the
(05:44):
defense pitches a shutout, completely mutilate the Tennessee Titans and
beat him sixty to nothing. Does any of that matter
if they go out in the divisional round and lose
in the playoffs, none of it matters. Like they're like,
(06:05):
there was no upside to last night's game. So I
don't come away from that game last night and go,
oh my god, Josh Dobbs making his first start, and
I mean, I mean, that's the performance you rolled out, dude.
They won the game. They're not based and they're not
being judged on regular season wins anymore or losses. If
they are, it's because certain shows on certain places in
(06:26):
certain networks like to break down the Dallas Cowboys because
they know it's a ratings draw. And you've got a
lot of people who love the Cowboys and a lot
of people who hate him. But there was zero to
gain for the Dallas Cowboys in that game last night.
They won the game. They covered the spread, Dak Press
got through a couple of picks. It looked a little
(06:49):
dicey in the first half at times, but they won
the game. You move on. There was so like you
can't there's nothing you can take away from that game
last night and go, my god, that could be a
problem moving forward. None of it's gonna matter. If they
play the NFC South champion on the road in the
first in the first round of the playoffs and they
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lose that game, I don't think they will. I think
they're gonna win, which is why I said the divisional round,
because I think that's where this team's gonna end up.
And then we just then from there, it's now you
see what you got. But based on all the playoff
failures last year against San Francisco, the Dallas Cowboys are
being judged differently and should be rightly so, being judged
(07:31):
differently than a lot of teams in the NFL. Like
if you were to just if I were to do
blind team test, you just did a blind team test,
and I described a team to you. And in my description,
I describe a team to you that's twelve and four
with an opportunity to win a road playoff game and
(07:55):
most likely going to win a road playoff game, and
a chance to play a a team that they've already
beaten before who's got an ailing quarterback. You would say,
I like that team's chances. That seems like a team
that could actually make a run win that second round
playoff game against a team with an ailing starting quarterback,
(08:19):
and that team is going to be in an NFC
title game. That's the Cowboys. Yeah, we come away from
last night's game, and I guarantee you there's gonna be
people that nitpicked the performance of Dak Prescott and the
Dallas Cowboys. It was a crummy condition game against a
team that was starting a bunch of backups in late
(08:41):
December on a short week on the road. You covered
you one, You got out of there, and now you
move on to next week. But the reality is this week,
next week, there really isn't a whole lot of upside
for the Dallas Cowboys if they go out and crap
themselves in the first or second round of the postseason.
(09:01):
Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio two pros and a cup
of Joe right here on FS are all right, let's
get into this. I'm not a big fan of prequels,
just by rule, not a big fan because I already
know how it ends, So why why do I want
to see how it starts? Like if you went through
every awful situation in your life, and I said, hey, look,
(09:25):
I know this was a really rough day for you. You
You had a death in the family, you got dumped,
dog died, whatever the case may be, got into an accident,
whatever it is. Do you want to hear how the
rest of the day went before then? No, I'm good. No,
not really, Are you sure? I mean, I know you've
got in a car accident, but hey, guess what, at
(09:46):
least that cup of coffee you had to start out
the day was on point. Yeah, I'm not really interested.
The car accident kind of ruined it for me. Not
a big fan of prequels. It's like a lot of
people tell me the Better Call Saul eight, prequel of
Breaking Bad, and it's like, Okay, I respect it. That's awesome.
(10:06):
There's some people who would argue, maybe it's even better
than Breaking Bad. I don't know. I've never seen Better
Call Saul, never had any interest to, because I gotta
be honest with you. After six or seven seasons and
like a hundred episodes of some guy with cancer wearing
but huggers making crystal meth out of an RV with
(10:27):
red mountains in the background. For some reason, that just
got me depressed. I don't know why it's weird. For
some reason, that was a downer for me. Point being,
I'm not interested in the prequel if I know how
it's gonna end. Can the Jacksonville Jaguars just win the
a f C South please, for the love of Christ,
(10:48):
can you just win the a f C South, because
everybody knows how the story is gonna end if Tennessee
gets into the playoffs, Okay, at least, can we get
something different? Please? Can we get something different? And I'm
not trying to be disrespectful. We have a great affiliate
on in Nashville, the Zone in Nashville, great fan base,
love Mike Rable. There's a lot to like about the
(11:09):
Tennessee Titans, But damn, what the hell was that? Like
the Josh Dobbs story, it's great first ever NFL start, Hey,
and I would argue Josh Dobbs played pretty well considering
the circumstances. But you can rest whoever you want for
this week and last night's game just to get to
(11:29):
week eighteen, because last night didn't really matter. All I'm
saying is this for the rest of the country, for
the rest of America who have seen how this story ends,
which is usually the quarterback you have, who more often
than not is wearing number seventeen, throws like some early picks,
or loses a home game to Cincinnati last year, or
(11:52):
you've got to turn to Derrick Henry in the passing
attack near the end zone because you're starting quarterbacks thrown
for like fourteen yards a game, but still you're making
a run to the a f C title game. Look,
there's a lot to like about the Tennessee Titans, but
I've seen it before and so have you. So all
I'm asking no offense, but with the injuries and the
(12:14):
backstory and what we've seen previously, can we just get
the Jacksonville Jaguars in the playoffs and just instill some
new blood. They're not gonna win a game. They look
they're set to play the Chargers. Whoever is playing the
Chargers in the first round is gonna get annihilated. They're not,
Like Jacksonville is not winning that game. But at least
(12:34):
give us something different, because we've already seen this Tennessee
story before. Two pros and a cup of Joe, Fox
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(12:54):
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now here on fs are all right, So somebody decided,
(14:22):
you know what, I'm tired of everybody being so mean,
tired of it. Teammates have now all of a sudden
jumped to the defense of Russell Wilson. Now, look, I'm
guilty of it. You're guilty of it. Uh. A little
bit cornball stuff from Russell Wilson all year. I mean,
if you want to be honest about it, a little
bit of cornball stuff from Russell Wilson. For a long time,
nobody else wanted to say anything. You had a lot
(14:44):
of guys in the Seahawks locker room. We were trying
to call this stuff out years ago. Nobody wanted to listen,
you know. I mean, look, it's it's just a little
cringe e. It's a little awkward. The uh, you know,
practicing the high fives to come out to practice, you know,
like uh, the subway commercial, which is just odd, like
(15:06):
some of the outtakes from that, the stuff he does
on like snap face or TikTok whatever whichever one it is.
I mean, look, a lot of that stuff is just weird.
Oh and on top of it, he's been awful this year.
Worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Like, just let that
sink in, worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Like I
(15:27):
would actually argue that Mike White's best performance was better
than Russell Wilson's best performance this year. So we're looking
at the worst starting quarterback in the NFL with all
that money and everything that comes along with it. And
so now you've got a teammates who have finally had
enough and they have jumped out to defend Russell Wilson.
(15:48):
Case in point, Jerry Judy wide receiver Jerry Judy, who,
by the way, apparently you can make physical contact with
an official and not get suspended for it, which is weird.
It weird how that works. But you know, that story
got kind of slid under the rug. But Jerry Judy
defended Russell Wilson, and he was defending him because there
(16:09):
was a an article that came out via Barstool Sports
that pointed out that Russell Wilson apparently has his own
office and private parking spot at the Bronchos facility. All right, well,
for starters, where the hell's everybody been? Brady Quinn reported
on this months ago. I can't believe this is just
(16:30):
now making the rounds. Brady Quinn on this show months
of months ago, because he's got connections in Denver said, yeah,
from people I've talked to, Russ got his own office,
he's got all these own perks and so on and
so forth. This was months ago, documented and discussed on
this show, and a couple of months later now it's
(16:52):
making the rounds as the Bronchos season is in the
toilet and they're out of head coach, and now there's
questions about what the hell the direction of the organization
is going to be after this season. So where the
hell were you? Another example as to why you got
to listen to this show because we were on this
story and on this topic months ago before everybody else
started to take it and run with it on social media.
(17:13):
But never mind all that. Jerry Judius defended these accusations
and statements that Russell Wilson apparently has his own office
and private parking spot at the Broncos facility, and he says,
amongst other things, I ain't gonna keep looking at these
(17:33):
false statements about my boy Russman. As a teammate who
sees the elite work ethic this man has is uncomparable.
He got an office because he's committed to his life
to the game. I never had a teammate who motivate
me more than Russell Wilson. All right, So what he
has said, upon seeing and reading the claims that Russell
(17:56):
Wilson has his own office and private parking spot, is
that Russell Wilson's got an office because he's committed his
life to the game. Right. So, like it's true, but
like not all of it's true. That would be like
somebody walking up to you and going a you're an
a hole, you're a deadbeat, and you're an alcoholic and
(18:17):
your responses. First of all, don't you ever call me
an a hole? Okay, but deadbeat and alcoholic or fine?
Al right, so the other two are fined, so it's
not totally accurate. So we have found flaws of the statement.
All right, we found a significant flaws in the statement.
But let's go ahead and go with that one. Look
big picture, this season might actually turn out to be
(18:38):
a good thing for Russell Wilson, Like if you look
at it big picture, because I mean, no matter what,
he's been humbled, no matter what, I don't care how
much money you make. When the conversation for you goes
from guaranteed Hall of Famer to this season so bad
(19:03):
that maybe we have to revisit that discussion about your career.
That is a humbling thing. Like I can't think of
a lot of guys who were no doubt about it
going to be Hall of Famers who in one season
you look back and you go, I don't know. The
(19:24):
only other guy I can think of in recent memory
is Antonio Brown, obviously for much different reasons, for much
different reasons, but Antonio Brown went from that guy is
gonna be a Hall of Famer, had like a five
or six year stretch where he was the best wide
receiver in the NFL and it wasn't even close. And
you can go back and look at that stretch. It's unbelievable,
(19:46):
best wide receiver in the NFL and not even an argument.
And in the matter of one year, he quit on
the Steelers, burned his feet in a cryo chamber, sent
out a tweet with the hashtag no more white women
in did a rap video with white women, which was
(20:10):
odd a little. You know, it feels like we kind of,
you know, forgot about the hashtag on the previous tweet,
but ended up in Miami, got accused of all sorts
of misconduct off the field, or ended up in New England,
played one game in Miami, got accused of all sorts
of stuff off the field, got cut by the Patriots,
(20:30):
then got picked up by Tampa Bay, then ruined his
relationship with Tom Brady, then sent out pictures of him
and Tom Brady's x Y. I mean, you talk about
going from guaranteed Hall of Famer to that'll go ahead
and do it. And I'm not sure who's the only
that's the only other guy I can think of other
than Russell Wilson who in the matter of one season,
(20:52):
completely changed all of that. So if you're just looking
at where Russ's career was headed, maybe the this is
what he needed, Like maybe you got to be humbled sometimes,
and maybe this is gonna be the best thing for him.
And so to see teammates come out and defend him,
I think it's that's cool, that's admirable because all you've
(21:13):
heard is the negative stuff. Like all you've heard is
Richard Sherman and Marshawn Lynch and a lot of other
guys point to look this stuff with Pete Carroll's taking
shots at Russell Wilson, Like, all you've heard is the
bad stuff. And so when you see a couple of
his teammates come out and defend him, maybe Russell Wilson's
gonna look after this season and go all right, I
(21:35):
gotta get back on track and focuses to what the
what the important stuff is. Maybe this is going to
turn out to be a good thing. Right. It's like, look,
how do you learn not to do things when you're
a kid? Well, you know, you you screw up a
little bit. I can remember throwing a temper tantrum. I
got pissed because my mom wouldn't let me have a
(21:55):
sip of her Diet coke. Is a true story, that's embarrassing.
True story. I decided I was going to be a
smartass at like five years old, and through a temper
tantrum and spun my head around and knocked myself on
the corner of the wall. And to this day, I
still have a bone that protrudes out of the side
(22:16):
of my head. I've got a horn on the side
of my head because I threw a temper tantrum. Guess
what I've never done after that, throwing a temper tantrum
because somebody didn't give me a sip of their Dike
coke right, never one time. In fact, I didn't even
think it was Dike Coke. I think it was like
Diet Shasta because that was the cheaper store brand at
the supermarket near our house. But point being, you learn
(22:37):
your lesson, you move on. So maybe Russell Wilson's gonna
learn his lesson, maybe he's gonna be humbled by all this.
I'm fascinated to see what next year looks like for
the Denver Broncos and for us. Two pros and a
cup of Joe Fox Sports Radio Jonas knocks with you
here on fs are you can hang out with us
is always on the I Heart Radio app. Alright, so
we are going to get to another edition of incase
(22:58):
you missed it, coming up here shortly. But for all
the aus from around the world of sports, ladies and gentlemen,
tell anybody making any sort of noise nearby to shut
their ass up because it's Eddie Garcia. That's right. Yeah,
you need your full attention. Yeah. Let's start off with
Thursday Night football with the Cowboys beating the Titans in
Tennessee twenty seven and third team Dak Prescott couple of
(23:19):
touchdown passed in the second half to tight end Dalton
Schultz and helping the Cowboys get the win and improve
the twelve and four. They still have hopes of winning
the NFC East, but they gotta win out and hope
the Eagles lose as well. For Tennessee, they didn't have
start running back Derrick Henry, and they started Josh Dobbs,
who basically they signed off the street about a week ago,
and he went twenty of thirty nine passing two or
(23:40):
thirty two yards with a touchdown and interception. Tennessee falls
to seven and nine, but it looks like Dobbs will
start again next week in a winner take all game
against the Jaguars. Winner wins the ABC South and goes
to the playoffs. NFL News Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, still
recovering from his knee issue, did not practice on Thursday,
unlikely to play this weekend. Philadelphiagles quarterback Jayala Hurts was
(24:01):
at practice throwing. Didn't participate in the practice, but was
throwing at practice, first time since he injured his shoulder
against Dallas College Football. We had the Alamo Bowl where
Washington beat Texas twenty seven, twenty Huskies and the year
eleven and two. In the cheese At Bowl, Florida State
Gota Ryan Fitzgerald thirty two yard field goal with fifty
five seconds to play, the edge Oklahoma thirty thirty two,
and the pin stripe bowler was Minnesota over Syracuse twenty
(24:24):
eight to twenty. Some NBA games of note, Celtics approved
to a league best twenty six and ten with a
one six, one ten victory over the Clippers. The Mavericks
get another triple double from Luca don Chich thirty five
points twelve rebounds, thirteen assisteen win over the Rockets. Grizzlies
down the Raptors one nineteen, one oh six Pacers beat
the Cavaliers one one twenty six. Tom College Basketball only
(24:46):
one ranked team in action, but it was the number
one team in the country per due. They handled Florida
A and M eighty one forty nine. Boiler Makers are
thirteen and NHL games and note we had the Lightning
over the Rangers two wanted to shoot out Kings get
by the Avalanche five, four to shootout Wild over the
excuse me, star is over the wild four to one
in the Coyotes, surprised the Maple Leaves six or three
and finally from soccer Brazilian legend Pelee passing away at
(25:06):
the age of eighty two after a battle with cancer
and now no pros, Just the Joe. It's Jonas Knocks
in the tirac dot Com Box Sports radio studio. But Eddy,
if you ever been to Nashville, I have not. I'd
like to go, though, Yeah, Like I was just thinking
about that Be and and our friends listening on the
zone in Nashville, Like I was taking some shots at
the Titans earlier it's fine, Everything's gonna be okay. But
(25:29):
I don't know if it's the magic of TV, but
whenever they showed downtown Nashville, that just looks like a
place that could be a problem. Like that looks there,
looks like there's a lot going on there. I've had
buddies who have gone to Nashville to see either a
Predators game or they've gone to see a Titans game,
and I've never heard anybody say anything bad about Nashville,
Like it looks awesome. So there's the potential that if
(25:51):
you and the misses who's a die hard Chargers fan,
if they get to the postseason, depending on how Baltimore
finishes up with Lamar Jackson still out, there's a chance
if Tennessee does win next week, you guys could be
on your way to Nashville. Like that that's a new spot, right,
I mean, that's we've been talking about maybe going to
a playoff game, and if it's in Nashville, I'm gonna
(26:15):
push really hard for that to happen. So I would
I I would like to see that happening, but I
had not considered and by the way, are the Predators
might be in town? That that weekend or that I
would assume like looking at actually, no, thank you. Yeah,
they've got like a seventy five game, Roacher, that's a bummer.
(26:36):
I'm not sure the exact date of when that game
is going to take place, but there's a possibility. I
mean there's I mean they are home against Buffalo the
Predators on January, so so there is that. I don't
know if that would be, uh the weekend that the
first round of the playoffs would happen. Actually I think
it is. I think that's the weekend so they do
get back into town, so you could see a Predators
game and you could see the Tennessee Titans get blown
(27:00):
out by the Chargers at home. Like that's awesome, like
that that feels that's a full full trip there, full
throttle any well, as you know, uh, we always try
and work in a hockey game if we can. Yeah,
so yeah, that would be yeah, like I just anybody
that I've ever taught. But it also could be the
magic of TV because they'll show like they were showing
downtown last night. I'm like, that place looks awesome. It
(27:22):
just it looks like a fun, fun town. Yeah, to
all I've heard is good things about Nashville, but they
also show like Santa Monica Pier. When they're showing games
in l A. Nationally, there's probably a lot of people
across the country like, man, that looks like a fun
place to be. Yeah, why don't you walk a few
steps up to Venice and tell me what it looks like.
Just go up to Venice and tell me how the
how the seat is. It's good luck finding. Yeah, that's yeah,
(27:48):
is totally different though. Yeah, but they'll show it and
they'll make it seem like, well, that's l A, Like
that's that's what l A looks like. I remember my mom,
my mom telling me. I told her that, like some
friends and I were going to go to Hollywood and
we're gonna look at like, you know, the Walk of Fame,
like we think we were teenagers or just coming to
high school. Okay, So I had no idea I had.
(28:10):
So I told her I was gonna go and she's like, hey,
you've never been right. I was like, nah, she goes,
all right, we'll see. I was like, what's the problem.
And I got back and I was like, hey, mom,
that place sucks. She's like, I told you, I just not.
You hear all these stories about these places around the country.
Did you get there? You're like, that's not not not
the nicest place in the world. But I like, I
(28:32):
also used this as a barometer. So J Cutler played,
he grew up in Indiana, played his college football at Vanderbilt,
gets drafted to the Denver Broncos. Denver is an awesome town,
great place. Um that that is that I've been to Denver,
That place is a lot of fun. Then ends up
(28:53):
in Chicago, another great town, great city, tons of things
to do, and then had a short stint in my Ammy,
also great place, lots to do and shows. After his
career was over, to live in Nashville or in and
around the Nashville area. So I think that's an indicator
that that's a that that's a fun place to be.
So Eddie Garcia is going to tear it up. Man,
(29:13):
it's either there or you could end up in in
Cincinnati or Jacksonville. I don't know about tearing it up,
but well, so what would it like in order of
your preferences if you were going to go to this
playoff game for the Chargers, how would you would you
go between Nashville Jacksonville and Cincinnati, which are the leading
contenders right now for the Chargers. What would be your
(29:36):
your preference, Well, it would be Nashville for sure. Okay,
I think the appeal of Cincinnati certainly would not be
the weather, but it would be the potential of a
shootout between two awesome young quarterbacks. And we do have
you know, friends in the Cincinnati area, including that guy
for ball. Yeah, Eddie Furman, that's right, so best friends.
(29:58):
But no, I would uh, I would definitely choose Nashville. Yeah,
so so we'll see, we'll see how that works out.
But for what, For whatever they've done to present Nashville
on national television like they did last night at Amazon Prime,
then it works because that makes a lot of people
want to go. I look at it, and I go
if I was in my early twenties, like if I
if I went to college in Nashville, It's like, you know,
I'm gonna hang around here and I'm just gonna go
(30:19):
ahead and continue on and just you know, figure something
out to do after college. Not a shot in how
my career would get off the ground. I would I
would get in so much trouble out there that just
looks like a fun place to be. It is Two
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(30:40):
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(31:41):
No LaVar, no Brady, just showing us knocks with you here.
By the way, I forgot like the brno's got Jackass.
I don't even know which jackassid is? Which movie it is,
the second one for the second one. Some of this
stuff is so gross fair, it is so gross. Um
(32:02):
and uh and oh man, they're about to get to
the uh the scene where the guy dresses up like
he's uh part of a terrorist mob and he's got
a beard with yeah, yeah, that's on. Yeah, that's where
that gillette that you lette puba care trim coming handy
(32:24):
for sure. All right, So coming up top the next
hour here the fifteen minutes from now here from the
Tirac dot Com studios, I'm gonna defend somebody because it
looks like there's going to be an award handed out
in the NFL and somebody's gonna get screwed. They're gonna
get screwed. I will defend this individual. We'll have that
for you again here coming up fifteen minutes from now
(32:44):
But right now, it's time for something we do on
the show every single day, and it's called this. Sometimes
you can't get to everything in the world of sports
or entertainment. Good thing, the guys are here to bring
you in case you instead. After that, we turned it
over to our executive producer lead do Do Lap. That's
(33:06):
that's right, Jonas. And in case you missed it, the
NFL is reportedly considering a massive change for referees, that
being making them full time employees, with emphasis being on
their ability to study the rule book, work out during
the off season, as well as officiating offseason workouts and
training camp training camp practices. How long have officials been
(33:27):
around for like a hundred years? Seventy five years, let's
just well, we'll call it seventy five years, which is
a fun easy number like that. So after seventy five years,
they're now going to have referees train in the off
season and study the rule book. That's cool. Uh, that's cool. Boy?
(33:55):
Do I feel like a horse's ass betting on NFL
games over the past twenty years? Fan? U? Now? I mean, now,
now we've got it fixed. We're gonna make them full time. Look,
I mean this is the people have been talking about
this for a little while. It is odd that that
NFL officials aren't full time. It also just goes to
show you that Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino and these
(34:16):
guys who recognized early on, you know what, I could
make a lot more money doing TV. It's a lot
better gig. And I don't have to sit here and
get my ass booed and shoot out by fans and
people on social media because I'm calling games by the rules,
but the rules don't make sense. And also, by the way,
(34:39):
it's just my side gig. I've also got to work
my full time job during the week. It just yeah,
this is probably something that needs to get done. But
just the idea that the NFL is like, all right,
finally we're gonna get around to making this happen, Like, dude,
why did Why did it happen sooner? Because now you've
got some gambling money that's being invested into the league,
So now you've got an extra cash lyne around, like,
(34:59):
you know what, We're gonna go ahead and get that
extra room down in the house. Finally, Well, it doesn't
cost that much. Why didn't you do it sooner while
we had other things going on? Now you didn't you
bought a k Gurader Like, what do you mean you
should like that that that room was falling apart. You
gotta get it done. You got asbestos up on the ceiling.
You know, there's like there's smells like mildew. Yeah, but
(35:21):
we got this brand new k Gurader, Like, dude, get
it done. I don't know why he took the NFL
this song? What else we got lee in case you
missed it? After winning the World Cup? That being Argentina
and Lionel Missi guitar is turning Lionel Messi's room at
the FIFA World Cup into a tourist attraction. They're gonna
leave his his room untouched and let tourists pay to
(35:41):
come check it out. What Like I gotta pay to
smell Messy's jock that he left behind because he wanted
to get out of that country. Like I gotta I
gotta pay to smell that and walk through that. Do
you think they've cleaned it yet? I mean, like did
they leave it? How clean? How long was he there for?
(36:03):
Like a month and a half month? Month and a half.
There's times I've left hotels and only been there thirty
six hours and I'll leave a tip because I feel
bad about what I've left behind. I can't imagine what
a soccer player who sweat his ass off running around
in the middle guitar left behind at his hotel room
(36:27):
that now they're going to try and make money on
because they're going to turn it into a museum. This
is the least interesting thing I I have no interest
in wanting to see Lionel Messi's room that he left
by the way, if you're messy, and I'm not trying
to accuse him of any shenanigans, but I might feel
a little bit uncomfortable about, you know, maybe some of
(36:48):
the stuff that might have been left behind in that room.
Then now people are gonna pay money to go see.
By the way, Jonas, don't you clean up your own
hotel room? Yeah, I mean I'll pick it up a
little bit, like if if there's at your own bed. No,
absolutely not absolutely not that I'm not gonna do, not,
not even a chance. But it's also I don't know
(37:09):
how to make a bed, like I know how to
do the basics. Like my wife gets on me all
the time. She's like, who taught you how to make
a bed? I was like nobody. I didn't have a bed.
I slept on a futon growing up, and it was
broken so you couldn't pull it out all the way.
I had to sleep on the futon that was that
was like literally pushed in like a couch. That's how
I slept, which is why it actually benefited me because
(37:31):
I sleep on my back. And she goes, I don't
know how you do that, because I just sleep on
my almost like I'm a mummy. I crossed my arms
and I sleep on my back and I don't move
like I'm a mummy. And she says, how, like, how
did you learn to sleep like that? I said, I
slept on a futon that was pushed in like a
couch for majority of my life. If I rolled one
side or the other, I was going to roll off
(37:52):
and fall on the floor. So I trained myself in
my sleep to sleep to go like that. So yeah, no,
I'm not making it a beg because I don't really
know how to because I never had to. So and
what do you current, Lee, What like do you make
your bed when you go to hotels? So of course not.
But I saw your hotel room and it was like spotless. Okay, well,
first of all, we weren't in Vegas that long. It's
(38:13):
not like we we were destroying the place. But yeah,
what are you guys doing? Well? Then Lee walking and
that did sound weird. We should probably clear clear that
up so nobody thinks we're on the side of American me. Alright,
tell me. Here's the thing. So Lee walked into my
room in Vegas and we were out there for the draft,
and he's like, geez man, like it hasn't been touched,
(38:35):
and like, okay, it was a king bed. I only
sleep on one side, and like I told you, I
sleep like a mummy. So there just wasn't a lot
moving around and we didn't need to be there that long,
so there wasn't a lot to unpack or shuffle around.
So yeah, whatever, it's not gonna be judged by Lee. Alright,
what else we got leave? That's all good. Hey, case
you missed it. Minnesota Betters caught one of the worst
(38:56):
beats of the bull season so far last night in
the Pinstripe Bowl. They went in of the game ten
and a half point favorites. Much of that to do
with them starting most of their star players, while the
Orange saw you know, Shawn Tucker opting out as well.
As their offensive and defensive coordinators not making it so
it looked pretty good. With three minutes and fifteen seconds left,
the Minnesota Gophers were up. They actually got a fumble
(39:20):
return at six or four yards to seemingly ice the game,
but they had twelve men on the field, so the
Queues actually ended up scoring with scoring a touchdown late
in that game, covering the score. Well. I I believe
that the overhead though I think the odd hit the
over did hit four. It's why nobody had a better
breakdown like Brady's the college Football Analysts, LaVar's the College
(39:44):
Football Hall of Famer. Nobody had a better breakdown of
why to take the over in that Pinstripe Bowl game
better than me, who pointed out that it's Yankee Stadium
and with that short porch, there's always a lot of
offense there. So I thought that Lee was applicable to
a football game that was being played there, and look,
as it turns out, I was one correct. And also
(40:06):
I would just say this, nobody ever feels bad for
the guy who gets gored when he's running with the bulls.
In fact, I would argue people are rooting for the
bulls to stick a horn and some guy and rip
out part of his body, Like I would argue that
that is sort of the if we're looking at rooting
interests and for running of the bulls, I would say
that more people are pulling for the bulls in that
(40:27):
standpoint than they would be the guy who's running with
the bulls, because it's like, dude, if you're running with bulls,
what do you expect if you're betting on Bowl games?
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